I want to be a Teen Vegetarian. Is it possible?

6 thoughts on “I want to be a Teen Vegetarian. Is it possible?”

Sounds like a good plan. You aren’t really a picky eater, children have extra nerve endings in your tongue (aka taste buds) than adults to prevent them from eating spoiled food because children also have less resistance to things which make them sick. As you get older these extra nerve endings die off as they are not needed as much, so adults tend to eat foods which are richer and stronger than they would have eaten as children. I never liked garlic until I was about 12, never liked tomato until I was 15, never liked olives until I was in my mid twenties etc. So it is quite normal for you to be picky, and explain to your parents why if you think that will help. But you do need to eat foods containing vitamins, so you need to force yourself to eat some of those things you don’t like.

As for the climate thing, producing animals generates tonnes more greenhouse gasses than producing vegetables does. The type which is produced by cattle, sheep and pigs is called methane and this is really bad as it is not absorbed by plants, whereas the one everybody talks about (carbon dioxide) is absorbed by plants. So it is possible to "offset" greenhouse gasses like carbon dioxide by planting more trees which absorb it, but there is no way to offset the methane. So everybody needs to be eating more plants and fewer animals. This also counts for milk, so this is something you can think about and maybe cut down on milk, drink water instead or have soy/rice milk etc on your cereal. However milk is a good source of certain minerals especially if you aren’t eating enough fruits and vegies so it is ok to still have it in your diet.

You are wrong to think that by going vegetarian you would contribute more to the worsening effects of drought. In fact it takes 6 pounds of grains to produce 1 pound of meat. If you went vegetarian you would not only save an animals life but also indirectly contribute to lowering the number of animals that are made to suffer and killed painfully and slowly.

As for the rest of your post and question thumbs up.

If you want to be vegetarian then take vit b supplements etc etc along with veg diet.

It is very possible to be a teen vegetarian! I’m 16 and halfway through my 5th year of vegetarianism.

most likely, your parents will be a bit skeptical or unsure of your decision to go vegetarian. I suggest making a meal plan for a full week and showing it to them, which proves this isn’t a silly little decision and that you’re serious about this. Do a look-over of the fridge and make a shopping list for things you’d need for the recipes you chose.

Good for you! Being a vegetarian is a health choice for people of any age. It is more important to make sure you have a well-rounded, highly varied diet than to focus on any particular vitamin, mineral or even protein. Your diet should include lots of different fruits, vegetables, greens (probably the most important), legumes, nuts and seeds. If you try to have 2-4 different items from each of these groups in your weekly diet you will be as healthy as possible.

To respond to some of your other comments – Being a vegetarian DOES help with the global climate crisis, because the meat industry is one of the top contributors to greenhouse gases, and vegetarians have a smaller carbon footprint because they don’t take part in that.

The video posted below explains the effects that cow’s milk has on human health. Its long, the basically the main points are that dairy products have way more protein than what’s healthy for humans (great for baby cows though!), it weakens bones by actually pulling calcium out of them (watch the video for the full explanation), is loaded with IGF-1, which is the strongest cancer promotor scientists have identified, it carries infectious diseases that can be transmitted to humans, and it causes many of the illnesses that humans commonly suffer from: obesity (weight gain), cancer, heart disease, strokes, diabetes, allergies, asthma, eczema, autoimmune diseases, ear infections, reflux, bowel dysfunction, etc. The reality is, milk is much more harmful than most people realize.

Unless you have like, some condition that u have to have like, everything in proportion, you don’t need to take vitamins or anything. To prove that point, I have been a vegetarian my whole life. My mom was pregnant with me while being a vegetarian as well as my sister. I am a teen vegetarian and you dint have to go by " special regulations" to be like that. I am hardly sick and the last time I had to stay home from school for sickness was in fourth grade. Trust me.

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